URGE OVERKILL – NOW
THAT’S THE BARCLORDS (SUB POP)
Urge Overkill was
always an act caked in personality.
Taking in their being based on the photo of them on the front of this
Sub Pop Singles Club release for May 1991 is a succulent thing, almost a joke. All in all they look like refugees/casualties
from Warhol’s Factory. This is how they
do in Chicago. Always have, always will.
This seven inch
arrived on fluorescent green. Its
amazing looking vinyl, the kind of look that works when sipping cocktails at a
swanky club. Here be the insinuated
existence of Urge Overkill.
“Now That’s The
Barclords” is three minutes of classic new wave that sounds very much like
Elvis Costello is full flow complete with big hook and rocking chorus. The intention to paint and envisage a better
way of being for the listener and on the outset it is mission accomplished as
reflection is made in a positive direction.
In execution the band does not rewrite or reinvent rock music but the offering
is sufficient enough to improve any day, any moment and give the listener
something to spring to in solid affection/attention.
On the flip is the
altogether wider and more philosophical “What’s This Generation Coming
To?” This is a song that sounds straight
from the Steve Albini school of rock offering jagged stabs and audible
consideration. In its questioning the
intention appears to be to offer a different way, a separate mode of thinking
and a more blustering existence to attach.
It really is possible to take all this from one rock song.
Urge Overkill are OK.
Thesaurus moment:
prim.
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